Bottle carrier



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Patented Aug. 6, 1946 BOTTLE CARRIER Walter D. Plummer, Toledo, Ohio,assignor to Owens-Illinois Glass Company, a corporation of OhioApplication January 1, 1945, Serial No. 570,889k

1 claim. 1

My invention relates to a carrier for bottles and other articles. Anobject of the invention is to provide a bag or carrier in which bottlesor th'e like may be conveniently carried by hand and which when emptymay be collapsed and folded into a very small compass. At the presentday, hand carriers adapted for holding beverage bottles, beer bottlesand the like and commonly used for carrying such articles home from thestore, are generally made of liberboard, cardboard or other materialhaving sufficient stiffness or rigidity to retain the shape of thecarrier while empty as well as while loaded. The empty holders arecomparatively bulky and inconvenient for carrying when empty.

An object of my invention is to provide a carrier which is made ofmaterial permitting it to be collapsed or folded to occupy a very smallspace and which thus may be carried conveniently in a shopping bag orthe like. More particularly, the invention provides a carrier or bagconsisting of netting, textile fabric or like limp material which may befolded compactly to occupy only a very small space and which', moreover,has strength and durability permitting long wear and reuse for makingmany trips.

A further object of the invention is to provide a carrier which iseasily loaded and which while made of a limp, flexible material such ascloth or netting, is adapted to hold bottles loaded therein in uprightposition both while being carried and when the carrier is placed on atable or other support.

Other objects of the invention will appear hereinafter.

Referring to the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a bottle carrier constructed inaccordance with my invention, the carrier being partly loaded withbottles.

Fig. `2 is a plan view of th'e carrier opened out and showing a bottleloaded therein.

Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the loaded carrier.

Fig. 4 is a sectional plan View of a portion of the carrier includingtwo pockets with bottles therein.

As shown in the drawing, the carrier comprises a rectangular, oblongsheet 5 forming the body of the carrier, and rows of pockets 6 attachedto one face of the sheet along th'e end portions thereof to receivebottles I or other articles, so that when said sheet is doubled as shownin Fig. 1 the bottles are held upright in rows extending along the outerfaces of the holder. The body and pockets 6 may be made of netting,textile fabric or cloth', or the like, the material being flexible andlimp so that the carrier when empty may be folded up to occupy a verysmall space, permitting it to be conveniently carried, as for example,in a handbag or pocket.

The body 5, as shown, is an oblong, rectangular sheet of considerablygreater length than width. Each row of pockets 6 is formed from a stripof the sheet material attached to one face of the sh'eet 5 along an endportion thereof. The ends of the strips forming the pockets are sewedalong the edges I of the sheet 5 and the strips separated into theindividual pockets by seams 8. The length of each pocket formingr stripis greater than the width of the body 5 and th'e strip is folded,pleated or gathered in a manner to give each pocket suicient material orfullness to permit it to be extended to receive a bottle Ill. A handleII of cord, rope, or other suitable material is attached at its ends, asby stitching I2, to the body 5, said handle being positioned centrallyof said body and extending transversely thereof. The strips forming thepockets 6 are sewed or attached by a seam I3 to the body 5 along the endedge of the latter, thereby providing closed bottoms I4 for the pockets.The edges of the pockets 6 and sheet 5 are protected by binding materialI4.

The carrier may be conveniently loaded when opened out as shown in Fig.2 and lying on a table or other support. When loaded and lifted by thehandle I I, the carrier doubles up to th'e position shown in Fig. 1 inwhich the two rows of bottles are brought to upright position closelyadjacent to each other, being separated only by the two interposedlayers of fabric formed by the body 5, the latter serving as acushioning means between th'e bottles. When the loaded carrier is setdown on a supporting surface, the bottles remain in upright position,resting on such surface.

Modifications may be resorted to within th spirit and scope of myinvention. v

I claim:

A bottle carrier comprising a rectangular sheet of exible materialforming the body of a carrier, and strips of such material sewed to oneface of the sheet by seams extending along the end edges of said sheet,and seams at intervals along said strips extending lengthwise of saidsheet and dividing the strips into individual pockets, and a handleattached to said face substantially midway between the ends thereof,whereby when the carrier is lifted by the said handle, the sheet isdoubled downward and the pockets brought tc upright position in rows onthe outer faces of the carrier body, said strips being of greater lengthth'an the width of said body and provided with folds intermediate theseams forming the pockets, whereby the latter are expansible to conformto the contour of the articles placed therein.

WALTER D. PLUMMER.

